Ezra Pound and Music (1977)
A99
Editions
a. First edition
EZRA | POUND | and music | The Complete Criticism | Edited with commentary by R. Murray Schafer | 4 NEW DIRECTIONS BOOK xiii, 530 pp., incl. front. (port.), illus. (facsims.) 23-4 X 16 cm. Brown cloth boards lettered in green on spine; end-papers. White dust-jacket printed in green. Published 16 November 1977 at $40.00; 1000 copies printed. On verso of titleleaf: ... Manufactured in the United States of America First published clothbound by New Directions in 1977 ... New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation, 333 Sixth Avenue, New York 10014 Dedication on page |v]: To the memory of Agnes Bedford, friend of the poet, friend of the editor The frontispiece is a reproduction of a photograph of a portrait of Ezra Pound “believed to have been painted c. 1922 by Stowitz.” The illustrations include facsimiles of a page from a copybook (p. [7]); an early transcription of the text and melody of a song by Gaucelm Faidit (p. [8]); manuscript notes on programmes for recitals by Arthur Rubinstein (p. [235]) and Wladimir Cernikoff (p. [236]; and the programme for the Rudge—Antheil concert of 11 December 1923 (p. [249] see E3g). “The purpose of this volume is to bring forward Ezra Pound’s musical theorizings and criticisms in sequence. A projected second volume will deal with his chief attempts to realize these ideas in musical compositions. ... Absent from the present collection are only interposed remarks on music from the published books and letters, though many of these will be mentioned in the editorial notes.” (“Preface,” p. ix) 119 Contents: Preface [by the editor|—Introduction [by the editor]: The Music in Pound’s Poetry—1 ENGLAND: THE EARLY REVIEWS (1908-1917): [Editor’s introductory remarks incorporate reprints of C8 and 10] I Gather the Limbs of Osiris [X]: On Music—[Affirmations, I:] Arnold Dolmetsch—Vers libre and Arnold Dolmetsch—[Review of] The Jnterpretation of the Music of the XVILTH and XVILITH Centuries, by Arnold Dolmetsch—Arnold Dolmetsch—Gilbert and Sullivan— Russian Matinées [from “In Their Degree” —C547|—Musical Comedy—Pavlova—2 ENGLAND: THE NEW AGE MUSIC CRITIC, “WILLIAM ATHELING” (1917-1921): Le Mariage de Figaro—Some Recent Concerts—[“Raymonde Collignon”]— Francesco Vigliani and Others—D’Alvarez the Indiscriminate—[“Music”: Letter to Editor of the New Age—C341]—Dammerung of the Piano—A Programme, and the Maladministered Lyric—Music [C342]—The Gaelic—Rosing, the Magnificent—Rosing—Varia—Cellists, Etc—Felix Salmond, Excellent ’Cellist—Music [C368]—Stroesco Improved; Nevada; Purnell—Arthur Williams (Cello)\—Music [C384 and 387]—The Avoidable—Prom—Music [C409]— Moiseiwitsch; Rosing—Functions of Criticism—Stroesco; Violinists—Van Dieren; Tinayre; Rosing’s All Russian Programme—Hebrides, Kennedy-Fraser— Miscellaneous—Music ... [C430]—Moussorgsky. Rosing; Stroesco, Haley— Mr. Rosing Experiments—Rosowsky; Rosing; Di Veroli—Lamond; Tinayre; Collignon—Music [C450]—Pot-Shots—Music [C457]—Mainly Stroesco—Music [C463 and 465] —Post-Mortems—Varia; Dolmetsch—Music [C493]—At the Ballet—Music [C507]—Marquesita—Music [C515 and 520]—The Pye-ano— Music [C530 and 536]—Cernikoff—Music [C539, 546, 552, and 564]—Mignon Nevada, et varia—Music [C6o00, 604, 605, 609, 610, and 613|—3 FRANCE AND ITALY (1921-1927): [Editor’s introductory remarks incorporate reprints of C653 and 654] George Antheil (Retrospect)—Atheling: Notes for Performers—Varia— The Treatise on Harmony [all four from Anched—A25]—The Unpublished Work of Fanelli—The Form—London Letter—Antheil, 1924-1926— Workshop Orchestration—Unindignant Denial—4 THE RAPALLO YEARS (1928-1941): ANTISCRIABIN [translated into English by Schafer from Pound’s Italian]—Hungarian Composers in Rapallo [tr.]-—Exceptional Program of Musical Events in Rapallo [tr.]-The Pianist Miinch [tr.-—-The Violinist Olga Rudge [I-II, tr.]--Second Concert: Tuesday 14th November ... [tr]--Splendid Success of the Second Concert [tr.—Warm Reception in Genoa for the Tigullian Musicians [tr.]— “Inverno musicale” [Co96, tr.]—Inverno musicale: Future Concerts [tr.]— Meaning and Importance of William Young’s Music [tr.]—The Singer Lonny Mayer [tr.]-—Planned Tigullian Music: Inverno Musicale [tr.]—Olga Rudge and Gerhart Miinch in Florence and Chiavari [tr.]—Tibor Serly, Composer—Music and Money—Throttling Music—Money versus Music—Tigullian Studies [C1305, 1318, and 1323, all tr.-—Marconi’s Violins [tr.]—Mediaeval Music and Yves Tinayre—Civilization [from Polite Essays—A42|—Mostly Quartets—Music and Brains—Music in Ca’ Rezzonico—Ligurian View of a Venetian Festival—The Art of Luigi Franchetti [tr]-—The New Hungarian Quarter [tr.]—The Return of Gerhart Miinch [tr.]—Concerts of March 29 and April 1 [tr.]—Tigullian Musical Life [tr.|—Tigullian Musical Season [tr._ —February Concerts: The Pianist Renata Borgatti [tr.]—Tigullian Musical Studies [tr.]—Tigullian Musical Season [ur]-Janequin, Francesco da Milano—Muzik, as Mistaught—Musicians; God 120 Help "Em—Musicians—Anita de Alba, and Possibilities for Rapallo [tr.J—Mr. Pound Replies—Mozart Concerts in March in Rapallo [tr._—-The Vivaldi Revival [tr.]—Vocal or Verbal [tr.]—A Letter from Rapallo [C1530]—Vivaldi and Siena [tr.]—5 postscripr (1942~1972): [Editor’s introductory remarks quote a typed note from Ezra Pound to the Librarian of the Library of Congress writren in the summer of 1960] Appendix I: The Developing Theories of Absolute Rhythm and Great Bass—Appendix II: Glossary of Important Musical Personalities—A ppendix III: Why a Poet Quit the Muses [by] George Antheil—inpEx OF PROPER NAMES
b. English issue ([1978])
EZRA | POUND | and music | The Complete Criticism | Edited with commentary by R. Murray Schafer | FABER & FABER | 3 QUEEN SQUARE, LONDON Pagination, binding, jacket, and size as in Agga save for name of publisher on binding and jacket, and price on jacket. Published 6 March 1978 at £ 25.00; 1300 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf: First published in Great Britain 1978 ... Manufactured in the United States of America... Contents as in Agga.
Content is now editable.